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Sustainability Talks and Updates from AWS re:Invent 2023

Adrian Cockcroft

SUS101: Sustainability innovation in AWS Global Infrastructure AWS is determined to make the cloud the cleanest and most energy-efficient way to run customers’ infrastructure and business. This includes providing the efficient, resilient services AWS customers expect, while minimizing their environmental footprint.

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Reducing Embodied Carbon is Important

ACM Sigarch

Chien’s argument: Embodied carbon numbers are disproportionately large Rebuttal: Large embodied carbon numbers are reported by companies who have set public goals to reach net zero emissions by 2030. Since abating emissions is costly, incentives are against companies inflating embodied carbon numbers.

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Sustainability at AWS re:Invent 2022 All the talks and videos I could find…

Adrian Cockcroft

The new information from October 2022 states: To achieve our goal of powering our operations with 100% renewable energy by 2025 — five years ahead of our original 2030 target — Amazon contracts for renewable power from utility scale wind and solar projects that add clean energy to the grid. They use recycled and rain water where possible.

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Cloud cost optimization: Dynatrace helps organizations manage cloud cost

Dynatrace

Our commitment is to achieve net 0 carbon operations and reduce our direct carbon emissions by at least 75%, and reduce our total energy consumption by 50%, all by 2030.” That looks like modernizing data centers from the ground up with sustainability and efficiency in mind and identifying underutilized infrastructure.

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PostgreSQL Partitioning Made Easy Using pg_partman (TimeBased)

Percona

Vacuum efficiency will improve as data resides in smaller partitions, reducing the time required for table maintenance compared to dealing with large sets of data. Query Performance will improve when dealing with partitioned data specifically.

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Measuring Carbon is Not Enough?—?Unintended Consequences

Adrian Cockcroft

This is basically the position of the major cloud providers, they will all take care of it for you by 2030 or so. This is extremely efficient, and I can be sure I’m putting solar power in my car, and doing it at a time when the grid might be curtailed. But you want to *do something* to help sooner.

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Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future

Smashing Magazine

If you need a developer, taking a Jamstack approach is one of the most efficient ways to leverage your staffing resources. Where do you think Jamstack CMSs will be in 2030? (vf, If your requirements fit within Webflow’s capabilities, it might be a good solution for you. Drupal is not just a CMS.

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